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I know some people that did go to U2 yesterday.. I wasn't one of them. I didn't know till after the fact. Hey I had been on vacation the past few weeks. Sunday was my first day back.. Plus I work till 3ish. Over 30thousand people showed up.. (only 10thousand got in)they also filmed a video on aflatbed truck thourghout the city..

I kept thinking I wonder if they are playing somewhere while here?. They played 3 extra songs after SNL went off the air.. I can't wait till March.. That tour is going to be fun..


there is actually 3 versions of HTDAAB
the cd, the cd with DVD and the cd, dvd and booklet...

Vertigo wrote:dvd and booklet...

Which is like 50 bucks.

this is not good news, but guitarist of Pantera/Damage Plan was gunned down last night as the band performed..


Gunman Kills 4 at Ohio Heavy Metal Show

8 minutes ago Top Stories - AP


By JAY COHEN, Associated Press Writer

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A gunman charged onstage at a nightclub and opened fire on the band and crowd, killing top heavy metal guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott and three other people before a police officer shot him to death, authorities said.


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The gunman had a hostage in a headlock and appeared to be preparing to kill him when the officer hit him in the face with a rifle, a witness and police spokesman Sgt. Brent Mull said. The hostage escaped uninjured, Mull said.


Two other people were hospitalized. Police said one was in intensive care and the other was stable.


Police identified the gunman as Nathan Gale, 25, of Marysville, 25 miles northwest of Columbus. Police said they had no information on a motive or any connection to Abbott or his band, the Texas-based group Damageplan.


Damageplan had just begun its first song at Alrosa Villa club Wednesday night when the gunman climbed onstage, started yelling and shot Abbott five or six times at point-blank range, witness Chris Couch said.


Mull said the gunman's exact statement was unclear because of the loud music. He said some witnesses reported hearing an accusation about Abbott breaking up his former band, thrash-rock pioneer Pantera, but police could not confirm whether the speaker was the gunman or a fan.


Police believe there were earlier threats against the band, Mull said. He declined to give specifics.


Witnesses said the man, who was wearing a Columbus Blue Jackets hockey jersey over a hooded sweat shirt, jumped an 8-foot wooden fence and was being followed through the crowd by club security.


After firing on the guitarist, the gunman shot a bouncer who had pulled him off the musician, while fans surged toward the exit, said Couch, 22. The gunman then fired into the crowd of more than 250 people, Mull said.


Mull said Officer James D. Niggemeyer, patrolling nearby, arrived within two minutes of hearing the call. Niggemeyer, 31, saw one person lying dead and the suspect holding onto another "pretty much in a headlock," Mull said.


He said the hostage, "probably a fan, maybe someone who worked with the band," was able to maneuver out of the way before the officer fired.


Mull praised Niggemeyer's response.


"If the officer wasn't as close as he was, I think this would have been a lot worse," he said. "It was a chaotic scene, just a horrific scene."


Besides Abbott and Gale, police identified the dead as Nathan Bray, 23; Erin Halk, 29, and Jeff Thompson, 40.


Bray's family said the suburban Grove City man was a Damageplan fan. Halk worked for the club loading band equipment, said the club's lighting designer, Brian Kozicki. Thompson's last known address was in Texas, police said.


Couch said he believed the shooter had a plan. "It was definitely a grudge. It was against something," he said.


Mull said he believed there was amateur video that officers could view for clues but that police had no answers yet. "We may never know a motive for this, unless he left a note," Mull said.





Gale has a minor police record in Marysville, said Police Chief Floyd Golden. He was pulled over for driving with a suspended license last month.

The tall, physically imposing Gale hung out at Bears Den Tattoo Studio, staring at people and trying to get them to talk about music and bands, manager Lucas Bender said.

"He's not wanted," Bender said. "The most pointless conversations."

Thursday morning, a dozen yellow roses, still in plastic wrap, lay near the entry to the low-slung beige building that since 1974 has hosted mostly heavy metal acts with occasional hip-hop and rap shows. The 641-person-capacity club, just off a freeway exit on the city's north side, sits amid motels, small businesses and office complexes.

Dozens of messages were posted to the band's Web site after the shootings.

"This is the worst day in metal history," one posting read.

"The metal world feels your pain," another wrote.

Damageplan's debut album, "New Found Power," which was released in February by Elektra, was produced by Abbott and his brother, drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott. Other band members are vocalist Patrick Lachman and bassist Bob Zilla.

Earlier, the brothers had been members of the Grammy-nominated Pantera, whose popularity soared in the early 1990s with a fast, aggressive sound.

"Damageplan carries on the tradition Pantera started, the ... hell-raising tradition we were all about," Vinnie Paul Abbott told The Dallas Morning News in October.

"It took awhile for some of the Pantera fans to accept it; we knew that was gonna be the case," he said. "Change is something that people have a hard time accepting. But me and Dime intended on doing this our whole lives."

The shootings came exactly 24 years after John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York apartment building by a deranged fan

U2 kick off a 10 month tour starting March 1st in USA.. Dates are being finalized..

The band are set to play 115 shows beginning in Florida in the Spring, reaching Europe in June, heading back to North America in the Autumn before finishing up in Japan and Australia in November and December.

exact dates will be announced in January with tickets going on sale later that month..

I really don't understand why there's no U2 thread. I think like half the posts in here are about them.

I had no idea where to put this so here looks good.

Last night we did some drunk cosmic bowling you know with the black lights and shit.

As for music early in the night Brand New- Sic Transit Gloria came on which was very odd.

Then later in the night Supermans Dead by our own Our Lady Peace. Which strangly resulted in a huge sing along with drunken Raine impressions amongst my friends who I never even knew listened to them. Apparntly in this area they are quite popular.

I just found it weird that my old favorite band and my current favorite band were both represented

Speaking of OLP on the radio...

I'm happy to say that Kingston's rock station KRock (what an original name!) has refrained from playing Gravity-era OLP, and is often found to be showcasing songs from Naveed, Clumsy and Happiness... (I haven't heard any SM on there in a long time). Often if I turn on the radio some time later in the evening, I'll hear Supersatellite or Hope. OMA is another local favourite.

Axtech wrote:Speaking of OLP on the radio...

I'm happy to say that Kingston's rock station KRock (what an original name!) has refrained from playing Gravity-era OLP, and is often found to be showcasing songs from Naveed, Clumsy and Happiness... (I haven't heard any SM on there in a long time). Often if I turn on the radio some time later in the evening, I'll hear Supersatellite or Hope. OMA is another local favourite.

I am jealous Rob.. I wish I could hear OLP down here period. I remember when I was visiting a friend in Toronto years ago and heard Julia on the radio. She said they play that all the time..The only thing that plays OLP down here is the Music Choice station on the tv.. They usually play stuff from Clumsy or Gravity. It was werid hearing Sorry on there on day..

If I listened to Y100 more often, I'm sure I'd hear some OLP... I know they're one of the dj's favorite bands.

nikki4982 wrote:If I listened to Y100 more often, I'm sure I'd hear some OLP... I know they're one of the dj's favorite bands.

when I say down here I mean NYC area.. except for WLIR( if they are still around) they don't play OLP here..

I don;t get y100 where I am.. and I can't go on line..

I was just in Philly the other night. North Stage/Star. I saw Butch Walker and American Hi Fi there..

They overplay Naveed, Is anybody home, and Supersatellite here. or used to, for a while.

any Interpol fans who live in Cincinnitti, Lawernce(KS) or Denver..

tickets are going on sale Saturday for their Feb dates.. Pre-sale for Lawernce and Denver on Frifay.


Feb 7th-bogarts-cin..

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Iknow someof you live inthis area dn like some of these bands.

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I know there were some Glassjaw fans here sooo ....

"In disappointing, yet not unsurprising news, it appears that GlassJaw have split up.

After intense speculation about trouble in the GJ camp things, it came to light last month that the band were playing a show on Boxing Day. But someone forgot to tell three of the members and decided to hire musicians instead. Todd Weinstock issued a statment about his departure but there has been little word from anywhere else. The aforesaid 'rent-a-show' has now been cancelled according to the band's official website. The time spent not telling band members they were 'sacked' has obviously been spent productively on redesigning the website. Althought there is no official word on the breakup, the 'RIP GlassJAw' on the website header and montage of dead musicians bearing the logo 'it wasn't their time' seems to be pretty conclusive."

I never was into them, but maybe this will leave more time for Head Automatica, which is a plus, but then maybe they will break up too, who knows.

yeahhh and now i have to find a way to get rid of that thursday ticket. eff.

i still <3 gj though. some of the best shows i've ever been to were gj shows.

megxyz128 wrote:yeah on 89X i haven't heard a gravity song since the album came out, i think the only one i hear now is strictly Sell My Soul (which is odd) anyway, they only play old stuff. they play starseed, superman, clumsy, thief, in repair, life, and some others. i mean ... it is a windsor/detroit station but that's pretty cool.

'tis true.

but they do still play somewhere out there quite a bit. i haven't heard innocent tho in ages on 89x. and by ages, i mean one year.